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<p>Don't get me wrong. I like Walter Cronkite just as much as the next guy.</p> <p>For those of you too young or too old to remember, Mr. Cronkite ruled the airwaves as anchorman of the "CBS Evening News" between 1962 and 1981. I grew up being reassured by him telling me "that's the way it is" every night. Uncle Walter. The most trusted man in America.</p>

The Pope is visiting DC and President Bush takes him out for an afternoon on the Potomac...sailing on a yacht lent to the President. They're admiring the sights when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water. Secret service guys start to launch a boat, but Bush waves them off, saying, "Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry." Bush then steps off the yacht onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Holy Father's little hat, bends over and picksit up, then walks back to the...

SADDAM HUSSEIN says that he would rather die than go into exile, that Iraq has no links with Osama bin Laden and no plans to destroy its oil wells in the event of a US-led invasion. But he is also curious about what Americans think of him. During a wide-ranging interview in Baghdad with the American television network CBS, the Iraqi leader suddenly ordered the cameras switched off and turned the tables. After fielding questions from the veteran American broadcaster Dan Rather for 90 minutes, he led the journalist to his private office and began grilling him. Rather, who first...

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon staked out a hard-line position Sunday - a week ahead of elections - and said Europe was too biased against Israel to be a Mideast mediator. A top aide said the prime minister did not consider a U.S.-backed plan for Palestinian statehood to be realistic. Sharon has repeatedly promised to seek peace and make "painful concessions" if re-elected on Jan. 28, but opponents said his latest positions show he has no vision for ending the 28 months of deadly violence. The emerging plan, known as the "road map," was formulated in recent weeks by the so-called...

Long before he and his young Jamaican sidekick went on a lengthy killing spree, John Allen Muhammad, a.k.a. John Allen Williams, is said to have mused to a friend about all the damage one might be able to do with the use of a silencer. Muhammad was talking about a silencer for a gun, of course, but curiously the veteran-turned-sniper?s amazing case has shown us that when it comes to the left-leaning media, being a Black Muslim engenders a silencing of its own sort. Under normal circumstances, left-wing pundits and media personalities love nothing more than complaining about America?s ?culture...

DAILY NOTEBOOK.... The Iconoclast (www.iconoclast.ca) All The News That's Fit To Spin...... October 8, 2002: Just how desperate are the ideologues at the New York Times to slant their news reporting in favor of the Democratic Party and against America's sitting President? Well, perhaps more than many of us have previously thought. In an excellent dissection of the Time's recent fictional, er, news report on poll results regarding American voters' policy priorities, David Tell of the Weekly Standard shows us just how low New York Times reporters will sink to "manufacture" news unfavorable to George W. Bush and favorable to...

Gun rights organizations say legislation under consideration in the Senate that would allow active and retired police officers to carry a gun out of their jurisdictions – even across state lines – discriminates against ordinary Americans, many of whom are forbidden from carrying a gun even locally. The bill under consideration is called the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act (S-2480) and was authored by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. According to a statement from his office, the bill would "permit current and retired federal, state and local law enforcement officers to carry their firearms to...

Found this on the CSPAN site when searching for Middle East related programming today:Speech Middle East Conflict National Jewish Democratic Council Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 169571 - 04/11/2002 - 1:45 - No Sale Clinton, Bill, President, United States (1993-2001) Go to http://www.cspan.org , click on "Today's Events" (under "Today's Schedule"), then on "Middle East Conflict", and there is Bubba's speech, the only topical thing C-Span deems worthy of showing today. No room for Israel's most eloquent defender but room for the skirt-chaser who played a direct role in facilitating the violence rocking Israel today.

Israel to expel Abu Dhabi TV journalist for alleged biased reportingJERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli police detained a reporter of Abu-Dhabi Television on Saturday and planned to expel him because of his alleged biased coverage of the conflict with the Palestinians. Plainclothes police escorted Jassim Azzawi from a television studio in Jerusalem to Ben-Gurion airport, where they were to put him on a flight out of the country, said Danny Seaman, head of the Government Press Office. Azzawi's press credentials were revoked on Wednesday after the satellite channel on March 31 filed a story alleging that Israeli troops in Ramallah executed...